russian revolution questionnn?

Question

what did stalin do to create terrible hardships for the russian people?

Answer 1

The list is long and awful. Read "The Gulag Archipelago" by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn for a first hand account of the prison system and the terror it inspired. Stalin was the worst criminal in history. He was already throwing bombs at people at the age of 15. When the revolution broke out he played a substantial role in developing the Cheka, the secret police who tortured and murdered millions of people. In the 1930's the people of the Ukraine refused to cooperate with Stalin's cooperative agriculture program, so he sealed off the borders of the Ukraine with troops, stopped all food from coming in, seized all the grain and food the people raised, and deliberately starved 5-7 million people to death. It's estimated that Stalin killed 20 million Russians even before WW II began.

Answer 2

Stalin followed Lenin. The hardships he imposed were after the Revolution (although Lenin's forced collectivisation was hardship enough).

Stalin continued the policy of forced collectivisation. He developed the Gulag to an extraordinary degree. He manufactured a famine in Ukraine that caused the deaths of millions of people. His secret police arrested and imprisoned or killed millions of people for no real crimes. He conducted many purges of the military. That is off the top of my head. It is by no means all of his atrocities.

Answer 3

Purged the party, purged the intelligentsia. Made havoc of the economy. Starved the Ukrainians. Created a culture of fear. An endless laundry list of atrocities.

Answer 4

One thing was he ran private farmers off of their land in the Ukraine, and replaced a thriving private grain-growing industry there with a failed state-run commune system. Millions starved to death because of this.

Answer 5

I am not sure offhand but you can try yahoo or google